Anecdotes

Member of the Paris Peace Conference in 1918-19.

Ambulance man in France during WWI. Also wrote plays performed in Broadway and scripts for Hollywood.

He was born in New York but grew up in England.

Character actor in portrayals of distinguished or aristocratic types; in films from 1921 until his death in 1945.

Attended Amherst College, graduating in 1899.

Began his career as a writer of plays, poems and short stories, using his birth name of Pottle.

Mother's maiden name was Hariette G. Gilbert.

He was represented in the 1930s by the Hallam Cooley Agency and S. George Ullman.